Only a Single Glance

 All the mountains of my being and awareness have crumbled in your gaze alone!
 Nights drowned in the wine of your love have passed in drunken reverie,
 nothing more, in that one glance alone!
 This wrist has shattered so many glass bangles—blue, white, red,
 no one kept count; all in that gaze alone!
 This heart has withered to wood! Barren, bereft—
 before becoming empty it was moist, it was natural.
 Your gaze was fire itself, I never understood!
 How you made me yours for a lifetime
 in that one glance alone! I pay life's debt in death through that same gaze!
 The love you never gave me,
 alas, I burn uselessly in that very separation!